Category Archives: Room 11

Our Junior school celebrated Matariki with a shared breakfast and pyjama day.  The tamariki had a great morning coming to school in their pyjamas and enjoying toast and milo for breakfast.  Below are some stories from Room 8 (Year 1) children about their morning.   ‘I like Matariki because we get to wear our pyjamas. […]

From Tuesday 26th June until Thursday 5th July our children’s artwork is on display at the Wallace Art Gallery in Morrinsville.  The children have worked very hard creating their artwork and love showing it to their families and whanau. Susan St Lawrence – Resident Artist at the Gallery is greatly impressed with our children’s art […]

On Wednesday, me, Paige and Benjamin went to the Hamilton Gardens.  First we went past the pond and underneath the trees and over the bridge.  Then we came to a roundabout.  We chose a dark path and it echoed.  We went around the corner and came out at the vegetable garden.  We looked at all [...]

The Board of Trustees hosted its annual families get together providing a BBQ sausage sizzle.  The tamariki (and parents) had plenty of laughter with some fun races and then a swim. 

In room 11 we have been learning about ourselves, We have been filling out our Mihi’s and talking to our peers about our name’s and family as we get to know each other. 

This term room 11 has been practicing our swimming skills, we love swimming and learning new skills. We have just been learning about safety at the pool and how to swim using freestyle and backstroke. 

In room 11 we have been buddy reading with room 2, we love reading with other students because they can help us with words we are stuck on and they ask us question about our books. We even get to listen to them read a book to us.

Making play dough with room 8 🙂   We had a lot of fun making play dough for our language experience, it was fun getting our hands dirty and learning about lots of new ingredients. We loved the opportunity to work with others younger than us so we could be role models.